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Mr. Chevy, 7a doesn't tell us much; it's not a location... there's a lot of 7a... Z7 VA/NC/TN is different from Z7 TX/OK, is different from Z7CA/WA/OR Apples & stonefruits are gonna necessitate a significant amount of spraying in most of the eastern US if you want anything approaching 'perfect'...

Rumen microbes can take the urea (nitrogenous 'waste' product in poultry manure), split off ammonium groups and attach them to carbohydrate chains from grains, etc. in the ration to manufacture amino acids, which are then incorporated into microbial proteins which are then digested and absorbed...

Your location, your preferences - and the level of care you're willing to invest - will determine what sort of advice we might give...

I&C is a long-season cowpea... 100 days or so to pod maturity. Can graze at 45-50 days, though. There are other varieties that'll mature pods a month earlier.

Those Iron & Clay cowpeas are small enough that I'm sure you could broadcast them and disc in, but I'm sure drilling will probably give a better stand.

I'd want to rule out Mycoplasma wenyonii/Mycoplasma haemobos infection.

Any more, I just say 'bred' or 'open'. From about 45 days to 3-4 months I feel reasonably comfortable giving an estimated time... but beyond that, it's a guess (at least for me), that I'm not inclined to make. Couple of years back, I was checking cows for our kids... I called one 5-6 months...

Huh. Thought I'd responded several days ago, but it's not here. I can't speak to grazing, but I&C is my favorite for eating... small peas, but great flavor. Peas shatter out if the pods are allowed to dry completely. It is one of the most aggressively vining cowpea varieties I've grown; Red...

That will work for most that are just being ornery/obstinate - but if they are truly physically unable to get up - fracture, nerve damage, hypocalcemia, starvation, etc. ... it's just torture. But... I'd personally rather have a few moments of distress trying to get my breath than being hit...

Nothing at all scary about that to me.

IDK about grazing, but I&C are my favorite for eating. They're tiny, and shatter out if you let the pods get too dry before picking, but the flavor is great. It's one of the most vigorous vining varieties I've grown. Only Red Ripper outruns it, here.

Studies done 30 years ago with colostrum-deprived foals showed that more 'joint-ill' cases resulted from bacteria entering through the soft, rubbery soles of neonatal hooves than through the umbilicus. Researchers recommended dipping/spraying hooves as an aid in diminishing issues. After...

My guess would be yes. Colostral antibodies against the Clostridial bacterins will interfere with response to vaccination out to around 60 days, so I would anticipate that tetanus toxoid-induced antibodies would be protective about that long - but I have no concrete proof that that is the case...

Yeah, well, we had to have C-sections for all four, so it's probably best that we went, or I'd have been a widower, like in days of old.

What TCRanch said... if your animals have been previously inoculated with Covexin-8, Cavalry (not Calvary... that's where Christ was crucified)-9 will serve just fine as the booster dose; no second dose of Cavalry-9 needed. I've used both in the past, but felt like I got fewer or smaller 'knots'...